Is that Taliesin? If so, you should definitely stop by the House on the Rock, nearby in Spring Green. It's always been one of my favorite places, and it's got enough to impress/entertain a wide variety of people.

There's no amount of money, no amount of corruption, no amount of crisis or lies that could derail the most powerful train to steam into D.C. since 1860.......................'s election brought about the Lincoln era.

The Gilmore House was commissioned in 1908 and finished in January of 1909. From the first, a leading university professor said, “This place will be one of the showplaces of the city. I am sure.” History has born out his prediction. It is one of Wright’s last Prairie Houses, and it belongs with the grouping of some far better-known sites in Illinois, including the Robie House in Chicago, the Tomek House in Riverside, and the Coonley compound, also in Riverside.

The house has had only three owners. The Gilmores sold it to a medical student fraternity, Phi Chi, in 1923. The Depression soon forced the fraternity to sell the house to the Weiss family, and their granddaughter owns it now. The site for the Gilmore House is among the most spectacular for any Wright house, perched on the brow of the highest point of the University Heights subdivision in Madison.

Beautiful. In the late 70's I worked for Servicemaster and cleaned the Racine Frank Lloyd Wright buildings for S.C. Johnson - at the Racine campus located in the ghetto. Saw the large offices, polished a lot of brass and cleaned many a toilet. In the "Tower" proper, saw the samples of wax - never knew there were so many. Good times indeed...

I like FLW, more or less, I'm not big on architecture, or rather, I don't have time, or haven't taken it, to learn much about it. "I know what I like."

Seems to me, though, that it doesn't take too much effort to design something beautiful with great resources. I've been working with an architect on an addition to my modest home. With limits on money and space, it takes real creativity to build usable, and nice looking space.

Beautiful. In the late 70's I worked for Servicemaster and cleaned the Racine Frank Lloyd Wright buildings for S.C. Johnson - at the Racine campus located in the ghetto. Saw the large offices, polished a lot of brass and cleaned many a toilet. In the "Tower" proper, saw the samples of wax - never knew there were so many. Good times indeed...

I worked in the same building for several years. By the time I got there the entire Research Tower was unoccupied because it didn't meet modern occupancy requirements and fire codes. The building housing the Great Workroom leaked like a sieve. During the 1998 winter break there was a huge snow strom that dumped about 30 inches. When I got back to the office after break there was about 6 inches of water on my office floor and all my files were ruined.

In the early 90s I was privileged to work in an ofc tower designed by Wright's protege and son-in-law. in Louisville at Dupont Circle on Dutchman's Lane--the Kaden Tower. (Wiki has a nice art. on it--go see!) As per normal, many quirky "Wrightisms" but a beautiful bldg--outside glass elevator, restaurant on top, etc.

I also grew up in an all-redwood Wright-team designed 50s ranch-style home in Illinois that my parents had custom-built from the original Taliesin-West Group plans. And, as fate would have it, I joined the same college fraternity as F L Wright, Phi Delta Theta. Wright, as Ann perhaps knows was a Phi Delt at Univ of Wisc. (Wisc Alpha)

There's no amount of money, no amount of corruption, no amount of crisis or lies that could derail the most powerful train to steam into D.C. since 1860.......................'s election brought about the Lincoln era.

Fort, Lincoln "steamed in" with 39% of the popular vote. His actual train came through Baltimore, where there were riots, and at the recommendation of his bodyguards he resorted to disguise to avoid attack.

Some said he disguised himself as a woman. This seems not to be true. At 6'-5" inches Lincoln would have passed for a woman about as easily as Cain would for Woody Allen.

Today Wasserman Schultz says the GOP has an anti-women agenda because they want to defund planned parenthood. According to her, women are going to catch on to this, and that will be the end of any GOP attraction from women.

That's pretty funny in light of her comments yesterday about Obama and his Israeli speech. Confusing too? She was suggesting American Jews forget about that and to not make Israel a partisan issue. Almost as if she feared it might be the end of Jewish attraction to the DEMs.

"'Form follows function' - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

Back in the '60s I lived a few blocks from Florida Southern College, in Lakeland. The campus was designed by Wright. It's a beautiful place, but the old library was full of head-knockers, as were the covered walkways between buildings. I commented at the time that Wright must have felt that one of the functions of architecture was to punish people for being too tall.

That's because his buildings are transformers. The structure pictured here, for example, could be a public library, a bridge, a government building. It could also sprout wings and become a wooden giant.

Wright's work was always in transit - never quite here, never quite there. Maybe if he had lived another 50 or 100 years...